Feature comparison of Kaspersky Security Center running on-premises and as a cloud solution
This guide contains information about features of the Select and Advanced editions of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business managed via the on-premises console and features of the Advanced edition of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business managed via the cloud console. For information about other editions, please refer to Online Help for the Kaspersky applications included in the solution.
This section provides the feature comparison of Kaspersky Security Center running on-premises and Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console deployed in Kaspersky cloud infrastructure. The feature comparison is presented in the table below.
Feature comparison of Kaspersky Security Center running on-premises and as a cloud solution
Feature or property |
Kaspersky Security Center 13.2 running on-premises |
Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console |
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Administration Server location |
On-premises |
Cloud |
Database management system (DBMS) location |
On-premises |
Cloud |
Web-based administration console |
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Maintenance of Administration Server and DBMS |
Managed by customer |
Managed by Kaspersky |
Hierarchy of Administration Servers |
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(Administration Server of Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console can only act as a primary Administration Server in the hierarchy and can only be used for policies and tasks monitoring) |
Administration group hierarchy |
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Migration of the managed devices and related objects from Kaspersky Security Center on-premises to Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console |
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Network polling |
|
(by distribution points only) |
Maximum number of managed devices |
100,000 |
25,000 |
Protection of Windows, Linux, and macOS managed devices |
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Protection of mobile devices |
(only Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Android is supported) |
(only Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Android is supported) |
Protection of public cloud infrastructure |
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Device-centric security management |
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Application policies |
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Tasks for Kaspersky applications |
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Kaspersky Security Network |
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KSN Proxy |
|
(on distribution points only) |
Kaspersky Private Security Network |
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Centralized deployment of license keys for Kaspersky applications |
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Switching managed devices to another Administration Server |
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(you must reinstall Network Agents on managed devices to switch them to another Administration Server) |
Support for virtual Administration Servers |
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Installing third-party software updates and fixing third-party software vulnerabilities |
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(to fix third-party software vulnerabilities, only recommended fixes can be installed) |
Notifications about events occurred on managed devices |
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Encryption management |
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(you can use BitLocker encryption only) |
Creating and managing user accounts |
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Maximum number of events in the database |
400,000 (can be increased up to 45,000,000) |
400,000 (depends on the number of managed devices) |
Integration with SIEM systems |
(by using Syslog only) |
(by using the Syslog format and TLS over TCP protocol only) |
Using Administration Server as a WSUS server |
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Monitoring the statuses of policies and tasks |
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Support of clusters and server arrays in administration groups |
(in MMC-based Administration Console only) |
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